Healthcare costs: which are deductible?

Healthcare costs: which are deductible?

If you have incurred your own healthcare costs in the current year (also for someone else), you may be able to deduct these costs when filing your income tax return if they exceed a certain threshold amount. However, we will check whether these healthcare costs meet certain conditions.

Conditions are:

• These costs fall outside your mandatory and/or voluntary excess.
• These costs are only incurred by you due to illness and/or disability.
• These costs are only deductible in the year in which you have made / paid these costs.
• Only that part of the costs is deductible for which you cannot get a refund from the (additional) health insurance or for which you have received special assistance. If you first pay the costs yourself and later receive a reimbursement from your health insurance company, you are not allowed to deduct (that part of) the costs. This also applies if you need care that falls under the basic package, but you yourself choose a non-contracted care provider. In that case, you must pay for this care yourself, which is non-deductible.
• The care costs incurred can be demonstrated by means of invoices, overviews from your health insurer and/or bank statements. Make sure you don't lose these!

Examples of (partially) deductible health care costs are, for example, costs for medication, but also aids such as orthotics or hearing aids. Click here for an overview (Dutch only) of the common healthcare costs for 2020 and whether they are deductible, not deductible or partially deductible. 

Report healthcare costs to The Bookie

At The Bookie we will take into account in your income tax return if you have incurred health care costs for yourself or someone else. You may submit the corresponding invoices or statements from the health insurance company to us when you fill in the questionnaire for the IB; we will then check for you which of these costs are (partly) deductible and we will process these directly in your tax return.